18 — THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Saturday, August 3,1985 INJUNCTION SOUGHT M ORGENTALER CLINIC ABORTION FOES ‘ CREATE 'McBarge' opposed by BEN TIERNEY pel this particular attack. BATTLEGROUND Southam News Basford is also gathering allies. VANCOUVER — The way Ron Basford sees Art Phillips, the former Vancouver mayor it the plan is nothing short of an abomination. who worked with Basford in planning False And he says he intends to do everything in Creek, says he will speak out against the his power to stop it. McDonald's plan on the grounds that it will re­ by E. KAYE FULTON duce the water area of False Creek. Southam News "We don’t want styrofoam hamburger boxes “McDonald’s," he says, “should be required TORONTO — They share a red floating everywhere,” he says. "The whole idea of encroaching further on the water when we to purchase and dig out an area Of land at B.C. brick building with a common arched just got that water back is absurd.” Place equal to the water area they will remove entrance. But they are neighbors and from the creek." bitter foes with radically different Basford, a Liberal cabinet minister in And Vancouver’s purposes in life. Trudeau days, is upset because of something called the McBarge. present mayor, Mike On one side, at 85 Harbord St., is Harcourt, says he is Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s controver­ The McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain also ready to line up sial abortion clinic, where despite the has come up with a plan to build a 400-seat law, doctors terminate as many as floating restaurant. They want to float it right with the anti-McBarge forces. five pregnancies a day in the belief into downtown Vancouver’s renowned False that a woman must have control over Creek residential area so they can park it next "The central point is her own body. to the Expo 86 world’s fair site. And the people that what has hap­ pened in False Creek On the other side, at 87 Harbord, is who run Expo think it’s a splendid idea. The Way Inn, a “Christian cafe” and Says Expo Chairman Jim Pattison: "McDo­ in recent years has “counselling centre” opened last nald’s stands for everything that Expo stands been almost miracu­ month by an evangelist who believes for — quality, service and cleanliness.” lous,” says Harcourt. that abortion is murder and that it is But Basford, who spent a lot of his time in “A lot of people put a his duty to interfere with anyone who Ottawa dreaming and scheming to make the lot of hard work into a disagrees. False Creek-Granville Island development the vision and now they Caught in the middle is the once- trendy reality it is today, sees the floating res­ have deeply held peaceful neighborhood of shops and taurant plan as the beginning of the end for one views about that water Victorian homes that stretch along of North America’s most successful urban rede­ area being maintained Harbord St. east to the leafy sanctu­ velopment schemes. for recreational pur­ ary of the University of Toronto and As little as 10 years ago, False Creek was an BASFORD poses and aesthetic reasons.” Queen’s Park on to the heart of the industrial disaster area. Its banks, and Gran­ city’s downtown. ville Island just off its south shore, were lined Basford wants his allies — and they includes The Harbord Business Association with sooty little factories pumping tons of pollu­ hundreds who have phoned his office and city estimates a 50-per-cent drop in area tant into the air and water every hour. hall to condemn the McBarge proposal — to business since the arrival of the Mor- Today False Creek is transformed. The grim support him in launching a co-ordinated, multi­ gentaler clinic and the picketers a and grimy workshops are gone and in their pronged counterattack on the proposal in the year ago. place is a mix of fashionable condos, affordable courts, before planning authorities, and in the “The tension is unbearable. This housing co-ops, old folks’ homes, marinas, press. area was really booming until all this. neighborhood pubs, chic shops and market “It cost us $10 million an acre to rehabilitate Now we are merely surviving,” says stalls. this area and now, at the first opportunity, Mario Poretta, whose family has A policemen watches demonstrators opposed to the Toronto abortion And that, says Basford, is a great leap for­ somebody comes along and wants to reverse the process again. operated a popular Italian restaurant clinic operated by Dr. Henry Morgentaler. c p Laserphoto ward that has to be preserved. on Harbord St. for 16 years. "One hamburger restaurant will beget anoth­ “False Creek is unique. Vancouver is the Poretta says the situation can only He said he would apply next week Below that is a television, with its er,” he says. "False Creek has been turned only city in the world that has an area like this worsen as residents and shoppers go for a court order for the arrest of doc­ 24-inch screen turned to face the from a cesspool into something of beauty, and right in the centre of the city and the people out of their way to avoid the latest tors, patients and escorts at the clin­ street. It shows continuous replays of we have no sooner accomplished the job than who invested their money in buying homes in and most threatening development. ic, virtually anyone who entered 85 The Silent Scream, a 28-minute film we begin to desecrate it.” the area have a right to insist that the view out Last week, The Way Inn and its Harbord. endorsed by U.S. President Ronald The floating restaurant plan was announced of their front window be of the North Shore proprietor, Rev. Ken Campbell of Ken He also warned in an interview that Reagan that purports to document the last week in an hour-long ceremony complete mountains, not of the McDonald arches.” there was no guarantee there destruction of a 12-week-old fetus in Campbell Evangelistic Association with Ronald McDonald hi jinks. To become a permanent fixture in False wouldn’t be future violence. the womb. Inc., declared war on the Morgentaler The deal gives McDonald’s four on-site Expo Creek, the McBarge needs the approval of the "There is some pretty intense po­ Two speakers are set up outside so clinic and both the neighborhood and locations, plus the barge, in return for an uns­ city’s development permit board. And that tential of violence on both sides,” he everyone — the picketers, passersby, the Ontario government ducked. pecified amount of money and a promise to might be easier said than done. said. "The radicals inevitably gather the residents and the folks having The relentless picket line of abor­ promote Expo 86 at its hamburger outlets Vancouver’s director of planning, Ray Spax- around an inflammatory issue as this. lunch on restaurant patios — can hear tion protesters that has invaded the throughout the world. man, says he is firmly opposed to any develop­ I know that on our side, we’ve got the narrator announce that "you’re area every day since the Nov. 5, 1984 The barge, with its float-through, take-out ment that would reduce the water area of False some nice picketers and some nasty going to watch a child being torn jury acquittal of the Montreal doctor window for passing boats, is to be tied up by Creek. ones. We don’t know who comes apart, dismembered, disarticulated, wasn’t working. The protesters, who the Ramses II exhibition for the five-month du­ “It would be nice,” he says diplomatically, through our doors.” crushed and destroyed by the unfeel­ came in daily on buses from as far as ration of the world’s fair. Then it is to be towed “if they could find a better location for it.” Campbell then proceeded to de­ ing steel instruments of the abortion­ four hours away in Windsor, Ont., along the creek to a permanent berth by Van­ But Expo and McDonald’s officials seem cer­ scribe precisely where and how a rad­ ists.” were disorganized. couver’s 60,000-seat B.C. Place Stadium once tain their plan will go ahead. ical could plant an explosive "aimed Protesters — both the nice and the They got the operating base they the fair ends. The McBarge is already under construction at 85 Harbord.” He gave the reporter nasty ones — march past the eight ta­ needed last month, when Campbell — Basford’s first move in what he predicts will and McDonald’s executive vice president Ron his blessing to print all the details. bles, covered with blue and white a local late-night cable television be a long drawn out battle was the filing this Marcoux says confidently: “This will be the checkered cloth and plastic, on their evangelist with a network of religious week of a writ before the Supreme Court of flagship of McDonald’s in Vancouver for a long way to the unfinished basement "con­ interests — took over the bottom floor Kenneth Campbell says God gave British Columbia. He wants an injunction to re- time to come.” of the building adjoining the clinic the Choose Life faction occupancy of ference room” where the pickets are and launched his crusade against 87 Harbord St. On a less lofty scale, it stored. what he calls “the baby holocaust.” was the owner — a member of the Ironically, 87 Harbord is the exact HELICOPTER FIRM Last week Campbell, of Vagabonds Motorcycle Club — who structural replica of the adjoining a group called Choose Life Canada rented it to him on June 16th (Fa­ building at 85. The neighbors share an and another named Renaissance Cru­ ther’s Day) for $1,000 a month. arched entranceway with separate sade “ for faith family and freedom,” Actually, the gentleman didn’t real­ doors. Campbell likes to refer to his Okanagan talks at impasse took the law into his own hands. ize his tenants were to be Choose Life side of the arch as "life and blessing” and Morgentaler’s side as “death and On Tuesday, he attempted a cit­ followers. In fact, after lengthy nego­ VANCOUVER (CP) - Okanagan Helicopters He said tour duty was the issue that prompt­ cursing.” izen’s arrest of two women who tiations he rented the former restau- Ltd. and its 161 pilots are locked in a contract ed the pilots to certify the union in 1981. escorted a client out of the clinic on rant-tavern to a numbered Ontario impasse over a management proposal to double “This industry is getting to the point where the grounds they were conspiring to company (Ontario 618578 Ltd.), which She was in her mid-teens, small and the time pilots spend working away from home more and more guys want to make it a career commit an indictable offence. The in turn sublet it to Campbell. blonde and obviously scared. She without a break. but also have a family and so tour duty away next morning — “in the name of God Choose Life operates from dona­ walked through the picketers in the John Sayre, a spokesman for the Canadian from home is important,” he said. and under section 449 (1) (a)” — he tions. A newsletter, which claims to lane at the back of 85 Harbord, Helicopter Pilots Association, said increased did the same to a doctor entering the have a circulation of 60,000, asks fol­ clutching the arm of a male compan­ tour duty would make it almost impossible for A federal mediator booked out of the dispute clinic. lowers to give "sacrificially and hila­ ion in sunglasses. A woman confront­ pilots to have normal family lives. in June. Negotiations resumed today. The four police officers who are riously (sic)” to help meet the $50,000 ed her: "Don’t do this. Do you know Sayre said Okanagan, which describes itself Okanagan negotiator Bob Baber declined to part of a team on 24-hour duty outside costs of establishing and the $5,000 what an abortion means?” as one of the largest helicopter companies in discuss the tour-duty issue. the clinic refused to comply with the monthly budget of maintaining "this The young woman stopped. She nod­ the world, wants to lengthen pilot duty rota­ Sayre said some pilots are conducting an in­ awkward "arrests,” although they did dynamic witness for Christ at the ded her head. "Do you know you tions to six weeks away and two weeks at home formal work-to-rule campaign but Okanagan charge an 18-year-old woman who heart of our nation.” could sterilize yourself? You can nev­ from three weeks out of town and one week at general manager Dick Everson said Thursday Five hundred followers could be a appeared briefly with a shotgun on er have a child with him again?” home. there was no evidence of a slowdown. the balcony over The Way Inn and, "founder” of Choose Life for $100 Her companion said nothing, watch­ according to witnesses, threatened “to each. An equal number could be ing the young girl’s face. blow the heads o ff’ picketers she said "associates” and contribute $10 a "Money?” asked the protester. "Do were trespassing on her property. month in 12 post-dated cheques, the you need money? I ’ve got a job and Campbell said he fashioned his newsletter says. lots of money. I promise, I ’ll look af­ “high-profile strategy” of protest af­ The purpose of cafe, says Campbell, ter you till you have the baby.” ter police ignored his “urgent re­ is "to raise the awareness in the com­ The young woman’s composure quest” in June for police protection of munity of the fact that what is hap­ crumbled. Picketers moved in around G U L F H A S his own property and picketers. pening at 85 is law-breaking. the couple. A woman and a man, The basis for his request, he wrote "There has been a mindlessness dressed as a priest, fingered rosary in a letter to police, was that law- which has assumed that because of an beads and prayed. Two police officers abiding people such as himself were acquittal, the law isn’t being broken,” nearby watched silently. T H E A N S W E R S endangered “since, as you are well he said. "It is being broken but the The young woman looked into her aware, such rackets as pornography, government is gutless and won’t do companion’s face and said: "I want to prostitution and abortion attract gang­ anything about it until after the go in now.” They walked towards the ster and mob influences .. appeal.” clinic. "You’ll be sterilized,” yelled (A few weeks later, a picketer He says the group is “not afraid to the protester, to her back. T O S O A R I N G broke the nose of a doctor who came get a bloody nose” to get what it The protester then turned to her col­ to the aid of a client besieged by pro­ wants. leagues. "We almost had that one,” testers as she entered the clinic.) The Way Inn has the decor of a she said with little emotion. "She was Ontario Attorney General Ian Scott pleasant coffee house and the atmo­ that close.” FIEET COSTS called Campbell’s citizen’s arrests in­ sphere of a union bunker during a When the young woman emerged appropriate. There were enough po­ militant and bitter strike. from the clinic some time later, an­ lice officers around to make arrests if This is a cafe with no menu. The other protester shrieked "Murderer” [^Quality products, coast to coast warranted — they didn’t need, or call volunteer waitress — a 20-year-old as she passed. for, the help of anyone. Any govern­ former exotic dancer who had three At 6 p.m., the protesters surren­ ment action would wait until this fall, abortions before she found both dered the sidewalk and the laneway to [^Convenience - one card does it all he said, when the Ontario Court of Campbell and the Lord — serves only the Harbord St. neighborhood. Appeal rules on Morgentaler’s acquit­ coffee and chocolates, donated in bulk The Morgentaler clinic and The tal. by a sympathizer. Money is collected Way Inn closed their doors to busi­ S ' Saves administrative time and In response, the Christian crusader, in two large plastic buckets. ness. who calls any supporter of abortion An antique wooden sled is suspend­ Campbell returned to his Milton money with one comprehensive statement “mobsters mugging mankind" held a ed from the ceiling in front of a large home northwest of Toronto. news conference on the sidewalk out­ cathedral window. A picture of a row The police maintain their vigil. side his cafe. of babies is scotchtaped to the glass. Tomorrow is another day. 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